The Greek evidently fell for her, `` Monsieur X '' recounted, and to clinch what he thought was an affair in the making he gave her 100,000 francs ( about $300 ) and led her to the roulette tables.

He began making small terracotta sculptures in 1895, and within a few years his concentration on sculpture led to the abandonment of his work in tapestry.

Cleisthenes, however, found himself being politically defeated by a coalition led by Isagoras and decided to change the rules of the game by appealing to the demos ( the people ), in effect making them a new faction in the political arena.

In addition, new technologies and tactics were developed, making most defences obsolete ; this led to the construction of star forts, specifically designed to withstand artillery bombardment though these too ( along with the Martello Tower ) would find themselves rendered obsolete when explosive and armour piercing rounds made even these types of fortifications vulnerable.

As the Kingdom of God described in the New Testament and particularly the Book of Revelation, Heaven is a new or restored earth, a World to Come, free of sin and death, with a New Jerusalem led by God, Jesus, and the most righteous of believers starting with 144, 000 Israelites from every tribe, and all others who received salvation living peacefully and making pilgrimages to give glory to the city.

The conservative led Centre-right government accepted this variety of " minority parliamentarism ", that is, without making it a question of the government's parliamentary survival.

This has led a number of environmentalists to support the use of the precautionary principle in policy making, which ultimately asserts that we don ’ t know how certain actions may affect the environment, and because there is reason to believe they may cause more harm than good we should refrain from such actions.

The way forward to making films made up of more than one shot was led by films of the life of Jesus Christ.

From 1900, the Pathé company films also frequently copied and varied the ideas of the British film-makers, without making any major innovations in narrative film construction, but eventually the sheer volume of their production led to their film-makers giving a further precision and polish to the details of film continuity.

Through analysis of this and other of Hayek's works, Block purports, " in making the case against socialism, Hayek was led into making all sort of compromises with what otherwise appeared to be his own philosophical perspective – so much so, that if a system was erected on the basis of them, it would not differ too sharply from what this author explicitly opposed.

Similarly, a 1919 expedition led by Eddington confirmed general relativity's prediction for the deflection of starlight by the Sun during the total solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, making Einstein instantly famous.

The post-July 1978 military regime led by General Fred Akuffo attempted to deal with Ghana's economic problems by making small changes in the overvalued cedi and by restraining government spending and monetary growth.

His gambling led him to formulate elementary rules in probability, making him one of the founders of the field.

The United Nations and the International Monetary Fund have led efforts to diversify and expand the finance sector, making credit more available to rural populations.

The capture and subsequent trial of Charles led to his beheading in January 1649 at Whitehall Gate in London, making England a republic.

On joining Sun, he led Project Indiana, which he described as " taking the lesson that Linux has brought to the operating system and providing that for Solaris ", making a full OpenSolaris distribution with GNOME and userland tools from GNU plus a network-based package management system.

Therefore, three wealthy business men Ibrahim Al-Mudhaf, Helal Al-Mutairi, and Shamlan Ali bin Saif Al-Roumi ( brother of Hussain Ali bin Saif Al-Roumi ), led a protest against Mubarak by making Bahrain their main trade point, which negatively affected the Kuwaiti economy.

Bai led an anti-foreign wave in Guangxi, attacking American, European, and other foreigners and missionaries, and generally making the province unsafe for non-natives.

Moon's propensity for making his bandmates laugh around the vocal microphone whilst recording led them to banish him from the studio when vocals were being recorded.

This gesture is believed to have led Clark to the idea of making the rose the race's official flower.

The largest failure for the Kampfgeschwader, however, was saddling them with an aircraft meant to be as big and as apparently capable as any Allied four-engined " heavy bomber " – the perpetually-troubled Heinkel He 177 – which had been condemned to being designed to carry out moderate angle dive bombing missions from the day that the RLM accepted it for production in November 1937, making it overweight from the start, and mandating design features that led its " welded-together engines ", a pair of cumbersome Daimler-Benz DB 606 " power systems ", to perpetually catching fire in flight during operational missons over both the Eastern Front and the United Kingdom.

His role in The A-Team led to him making an appearance in the long-running sit-com Diff ' rent Strokes in the sixth season opener " Mr T. and mr. t " ( 1983 ), in which an episode of The A-Team is supposedly filmed in the family's penthouse apartment.

According to MIME co-creator Nathaniel Borenstein, the intention was to allow MIME to change, to advance to version 2. 0 and so forth, but this decision led to the opposite outcome, making it nearly impossible to create a new version of the standard.

Each unit was led by a juzi ( literally, " chisel "— an image from craft making ).

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

His folksy manner led him to be nicknamed " Bubba ", especially in the Southern U. S. Since 2000, he has frequently been referred to as " The Big Dog " or " Big Dog.

Instead a different process, that of producing an alternative book, led to the publication of Series 1, 2 and 3 in the 1960s, the 1980 Alternative Service Book and subsequently to the 2000 Common Worship series of books.

The second study lasted 411 days in 2000 – 2001, in Ahmedabad, India, under the direction of a 21 member team of medical doctors and scientists led by doctors Sudhir Shah and K. K. Shah, a past President of the Indian Medical Association and current Chairman of the Jainist Doctors ' Federation ( the latter group aims to " Promote scientific research and medical education based on principles of Jainism ").

The growing presentation of cheerleading as a sport to a global audience has been led by the 1997 start of broadcasts of cheerleading competition by ESPN International and the worldwide release of the 2000 film Bring it On.

Gullit was replaced by Gianluca Vialli, who led the team to victory in the League Cup Final and the Cup Winners ' Cup Final in 1998, the FA Cup in 2000 and their first appearance in the UEFA Champions League.

Canion had allowed competitors such as Dell Computer, AST Research, and Gateway 2000 to undercut Compaq with cheaper offerings, that led to a $ 71 million loss for that quarter, Compaq's first loss as a company.

James became prime minister, serving until the February 2000 elections, when the Dominica United Workers Party ( DUWP ) was defeated by the Dominica Labour Party ( DLP ), led by Rosie Douglas.

Subsequent protest led to the 2000 Ecuadorean coup d ' état which saw Mahuad's removal from office and the elevation of Vice President Gustavo Noboa to the presidency.

* Dispute over alignment of boundary with Eritrea led to the Eritrean-Ethiopian War ( 1998 – 2000 ), which was resolved by an independent boundary commission's delimitation decision in 2002.

In the 2000 season, veteran quarterback Mark Brunell and young running back Fred Taylor led the squad through a painful 7 – 9 season.

The increased economic growth also led to a turn-around in government finances, with the budget moving from a cash deficit of 3. 7 % of GDP in 1999 to 0. 1 % surplus in 2000.

After being diagnosed with Type-2 diabetes in 2000, which led to a brief hospitalisation, Lemmy again appeared with Motörhead at WrestleMania 17.

The plucked family led to lute-like instruments in 2000 BC Mesopotamia, and developed into the oud or ud before appearing in Spain, first documented around 711 AD, courtesy of the Moors.

After decades of “ low intensity conflict ” in Maguindanao between 1976 and 2000, President Estrada ’ s “ All Out War ” strategy declared in 2000 led to the displacement of more than 930, 000 individuals.

This led his party to losing the 2000 election and the Governorship when he ran again in 2004.

Contested elections in late 2000 led to a massacre in Zanzibar in January 2001, with the government shooting into crowds of protesters, killing 35 and injuring 600.

Hoffs married film director Jay Roach ( Austin Powers and Meet the Parents ), and their union led to the Bangles ' reunion of 2000, after Roach asked Hoffs and Vicki Peterson to write a song for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

* The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ( JINR ) in Dubna, Russia, led principally by Y. Oganessian, in collaboration with several other laboratories including the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ), since 2000:

Contested elections in late 2000 led to a massacre in Zanzibar in January 2001 when the government shot into crowds of protestors, killing 35 and injuring 600.

* 2000 overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia-after Slobodan Milošević was accused by opposition figures of winning the 2000 election through electoral fraud, mass protests led by the opposition movement Otpor pressure Slobodan Milošević to resign.

* The bimonthly 2000 AD Extreme Edition presented reprints of classic and hard-to-find 2000AD stories, but poor sales led to its cancellation in mid-2008.